Re: Thoughts on git-completion

From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2010, 20:34 UTC
Message-ID: <c115fd3c1003011234m75df37ehed54a59552f681a5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100301195751.GG24776@spearce.org>

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I `alias g=git` and `alias gk=gitk` on every machine that I use git on
>> and I have to edit the git-completion.bash script in order to get the
>> marvelous completion provided by that script with my aliases.  Is this
>> something that could be rolled in to the official release or does this
>> rest firmly in the personal customization realm?  I'm prepared to
>> submit a patch if you'd like.
>
> Does adding to your local script
>
>  complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _git g 2>/dev/null \
>  || complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g
>
> work for you?  It seems to me you just need to tell bash to run
> _git or _gitk when doing completion for your alias.

The patch that I use is:

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    > complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _git g 2>/dev/null \
    >        || complete -o default -o nospace -F _git g
    > complete -o bashdefault -o default -o nospace -F _gitk gk 2>/dev/null \
    >        || complete -o default -o nospace -F _gitk gk

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